You canโt keep messing me around like this. Itโs been going on too long. I canโt take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. Youโre like a disease to me.
Sam ShepardCharacter is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.
Sam ShepardIn many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.
Sam Shepard